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On Fairy Stories

Episode 17 of The Forge of Tolkien, ON FAIRY STORIES is now live on Unauthorized, featuring the newest Presidential appointee to the Federal Cultural Property Advisory Committee, Professor Rachel Fulton Brown.

In 1938, Tolkien gave a lecture at St. Andrew’s University on the topic of “fairy stories,” ostensibly meaning to explain what “fairy stories” were. In the course of the lecture, however, Tolkien spent more time explaining what they weren’t—travelers’ tales, beast fables, dreams, children’s stories—than, it would seem, explaining what they were. Why did Tolkien find it so hard to define fairy stories other than in the negative? What was he thinking of when he defined them not as stories about fairies, but as stories about “Faërie,” aka the Perilous Realm?

In this episode, Prof. Rachel Fulton Brown reads the published version of Tolkien’s lecture for clues about what Tolkien intended his own fairy stories to achieve. We pull back the veil of Fantasy to learn why real fairy stories have happy endings—and why our reading of Tolkien’s own stories has only just begun.

In service to the Beautiful

President Trump has been the only President to champion the Good, the Beautiful, and the True over the course of my lifetime. Whether he succeeds or fails – and I believe he will succeed – in his war with the Swamp, he has been the greatest U.S. President since Andrew Jackson defeated the Bank.

Policy. (a) Applicable Federal public buildings should uplift and beautify public spaces, inspire the human spirit, ennoble the United States, and command respect from the general public. They should also be visually identifiable as civic buildings and, as appropriate, respect regional architectural heritage. Architecture — with particular regard for traditional and classical architecture — that meets the criteria set forth in this subsection is the preferred architecture for applicable Federal public buildings. In the District of Columbia, classical architecture shall be the preferred and default architecture for Federal public buildings absent exceptional factors necessitating another kind of architecture.

(b) Where the architecture of applicable Federal public buildings diverges from the preferred architecture set forth in subsection (a) of this section, great care and consideration must be taken to choose a design that commands respect from the general public and clearly conveys to the general public the dignity, enterprise, vigor, and stability of America’s system of self-government.

(c) When renovating, reducing, or expanding applicable Federal public buildings that do not meet the criteria set forth in subsection (a) of this section, the feasibility and potential expense of building redesign to meet those criteria should be examined. Where feasible and economical, such redesign should be given substantial consideration, especially with regard to the building’s exterior.

This is not a trivial matter. To stand against modern art and architecture is to battle for the soul of the nation, which has been enervated by the hateful, spirit-destroying ugliness pushed relentlessly by the Prometheans for decades. 

Feminists against women’s sports

Female athletes make it clear that they are more dedicated to radical ideology than to actual women’s sports:

Several amicus briefs were filed Monday in support of Hecox v. Little, a challenge to Idaho’s law banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports in school.

Tennis icon Billie Jean King, World Cup champion Megan Rapinoe and WNBA legend Candace Parker were among the more than 175 athletes who joined Athlete Ally and the Women’s Sports Foundation in signing a brief filed by Lambda Legal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The brief highlights the athletes’ beliefs in the importance of equal opportunity for girls and women to participate in sports at all levels. 

“There is no place in any sport for discrimination of any kind,” King said. “I’m proud to support all transgender athletes who simply want the access and opportunity to compete in the sport they love. The global athletic community grows stronger when we welcome and champion all athletes—including LGBTQI+ athletes.”

So be it. If equality is to be the standard, then logic dictates that all discrimination in sports be abandoned. Let men, women, and self-defined freakshows all compete directly against each other. That’s the fastest, most efficient way to get back to having all-men’s sports.

Red State revolt

It appears that Congress’s behavior in passing the revolting National Defense Authorization Act, which makes streaming a federal offense and hands another $500 million to Israel, $135 million to Burma, $86 million to Cambodia, $130 million to Nepal, another $1,400 million to Asian governments, and a paltry $600 to American citizens suffering from the government-imposed economic lockdowns, may be helping stiffen the resolve of the state officials to do their duty:

I’ve been in talks with state government officials over the past few days. Unlike congress, they have BALLS. There’s a plan in the works, and when it hits, it will be absolutely explosive. Sweeping through red America one state at a time like dominoes. If congress doesn’t do their job on the sixth, expect media and lib panic to hit previously unseen levels by the news cycle beginning Jan. 11 and escalate from there.

This tends to run counter to what I know of state officials, but the closer that the calendar – if not the actual probability – gets to the realization of what a Biden administration would actually mean for them, the more the emotional pressure on the state officials to do the right thing rather than simply accept the media narrative grows. It’s one thing to look at the reported election results and run through the gentlemanly, “well, doggone it, we tried” graceful defeat routine, it’s another to look soberly at how badly things are likely to become in short order if you go along with the fake status quo.

Especially when you can see your Blue State counterparts openly breaking the law.

The Michigan Secretary of State directed the county clerks to delete all their electronic voting records. Previous years electric records from 2018 and 2016 are still intact. By law all records are to be preserved for at least 2 years.

Christmas gifts from the VP

CodeMonkeyZ reports that President Trump is giving the 7 States in contention one more chance to clean up their fraud and get their State in order.

Dec 24: Pence is expected to tell state legislatures with dueling electors to immediately address the contention in their states to a resolution. States may: split electors, certify contested electors, conduct forensic studies, etc.

Jan 6: Not resolved? Throw out their electors.

And if a State doesn’t like it, then it can go complain to the Supreme Court. Where it doesn’t have standing anymore. 

He’s not listening

To the lawyers, the conceders, and the graceful-defeaters:

Big news coming out of Pennsylvania. Very big illegal ballot drop that cannot be accounted for. Rigged Election!

I expect regular releases of fraud-related news that will become increasingly difficult for the media to minimize and deny. This is analogous to a pre-assault artillery bombardment intended to weaken the enemy defenses.

It’s really not that complicated

 Patreon confirms that its lawsuit against the 72 Bears isn’t complex.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff Patreon, Inc. does not oppose Defendants’ Motion to Designate Case as Not Complex, filed December 9, 2020.  The parties stipulated on October 7, 2020 that this case should not be designated as complex. 

So as I surmised at the time, the belated designation of the Patreon case as complex litigation was just a mistake by the Clerk of the Court rather than shenanigans on anyone’s part. That mistake has been corrected and the only real consequence of this is the delay of what is best understood as a motion to dismiss being heard by Judge Schulman from December 16 to January 20.

The result of that hearing are not seriously in doubt, since as the Legal Legion has explained it to me, Patreon’s lawyers have never grasped that California law generally does not permit two simultaneous iterations of the same proceeding in different jurisdictions. Their lawyers appear to have misunderstood the case law that permits questions of arbitrability to be heard by a court BEFORE an arbitration begins in much the same way that an arbitration award can be challenged AFTER an arbitration ends.

But, as Judge Schulman’s order on the preliminary injunction has already explained, the courts are not generally permitted to, nor can they reasonably be expected to, interfere with ongoing arbitration proceedings once they have begun. So, the most likely outcome is that Judge Schulman will throw the Patreon case out for being untimely, and tell them to challenge the awards in the future if they don’t like the way the arbitrations turn out.

Which they probably won’t. The fact that Patreon has recently changed its terms of use to preclude arbitration rather than mandate it, and has removed its illegal forced waivers of jury trials and class actions, would appear to provide a fairly reliable guide to how Patreon thinks the arbitrations are going.

Lawyers don’t do strategy

And they certainly don’t make strategic decisions. But this report by Patrick Byrne concerning a recent meeting at the White House would sound a lot more concerning if it wasn’t obviously limited to the President’s legal team:

“I was there for the full 4.5 hour meeting. Claims military coup/martial law were discussed is 100{e61d147451bc60549e96d95b5c07be35845e0345eab7ed5d54cc3d49f812ab5c} fabrication. Trump is lied to by his own advisers, who tell staff “get the president to concede“ while they stall Trump. Meadows + Lawyers Eric, Derek, GC Pat Cippollone (leaker).”

“Meadows and legal staff led by GC Cippolone reflexively shoot down every sober discussion or idea presented. Their frame of mind is automatic: “we better not try that, it may not work, it would hurt your reputation in the press…“ No kidding, they say stuff like that. Tell DJT.”

Byrne named the advisors he believes are hurting Trump, “Pat Cippollone and two other lawyers. Eric and Derek. Meadows wants him to concede and transition also.”

Responding to a poster who offered an opinion on why the establishment is intent on getting rid of Trump, “I’m convinced the US Establishment including the Republican Establishment have decided to end the Trump era. They want Biden/Harris and the Globalist Reset. The reason they have resorted to such extreme measures is because the Reset is time critical. They need the US on board now,” Byrne replied, “Correct.”

Byrne responded to several questions about the meeting and Trump’s attitude, It is 100{e61d147451bc60549e96d95b5c07be35845e0345eab7ed5d54cc3d49f812ab5c} winnable. No martial law required. Sydney and Flynn presented a course that I estimate has 50{e61d147451bc60549e96d95b5c07be35845e0345eab7ed5d54cc3d49f812ab5c} – 75{e61d147451bc60549e96d95b5c07be35845e0345eab7ed5d54cc3d49f812ab5c} chance of victory. His staff just try to convince him to do nothing but accept it. As a CEO, my heart broke to see what he is going through. He is betrayed from within.”…”He truly believe he won and he truly did win. I did not vote for him, but I don’t want to see our country hijacked in a psyop.”…”Too nice. Thinks he will look bad in press. Nonsense like that.”…He wants to fight on. They are bending over backwards to come up with reasons to tell him he can’t do anything. He needs to fire them all or he loses.”

One thing I’ve learned over the last few years is that lawyers are, for the most part, among the most cowardly people on the planet. They’re only the big tough intimidating courtroom giants they are portrayed as being on television when they are on the offensive and believe they are untouchable because the conflict doesn’t directly concern them. They tend to fold the minute that even the slightest criticism is directed at them personally; I’ve heard genuine panic in the voice of a top lawyer from a very high status firm when she was simply told to “stop lying”. The Legal Legion is most definitely not even close to the norm in the legal world.

Basically, they live in complete terror of the judges all the time, and unless a strategy offers a 100-percent chance of success, they don’t like it. “It may not work so we better not try it” rings absolutely true. They really don’t like genuine conflict and they are not accustomed to it; they remind me of point fighters facing the prospect of going into the full-contact ring for the first time.

That being said, there is zero chance that this group, with that lawerly mindset, has anything whatsoever to do with the NSA and military intelligence teams that set the election trap and is reported to “have it all”. So, while I think Byrne’s report is likely real, I don’t think it is as relevant as it sounds, because I think this is the legal plan team, as opposed to the legislative plan team, as opposed to the defend-the-Constitution team. And I doubt President Trump has much confidence in them, because he has a lot more experience with lawyers and knows far more about them than I do.

Mailvox: their best and brightest

As this reader’s email demonstrates, Trump’s actions will almost certainly take the Swamp by surprise no matter how clearly he signals it.

Laurence Tribe just tweeted about Trump’s EO, which he claims he just learned about, and it frightens him/

Note that Tribe is one of the left-wing legal “heavyweights” who gave the intellectual credibility and push to the impeachment coup. A long-time, “well-respected”  Harvard law professor and a Vyshinsky for his masters. He was the law professor who, when Obama was at Harvard Law, claimed Obama helped him to write the much-mocked, crackpot legal article “The Curvature of Constitutional Space” , which I can confirm is nonsense and argle-barge even by the standards of law review articles. 

Anyway, the fact that Tribe just today sounded the alarm means I think a shift in The Narrative is coming by in the next few days. Now they will screech about Trump being a banana dictator and how the military should remove him before January 6th—you know, for the sake of “democracy.”  

Here’s an alarming Trump Executive Order dated 9/12/18 that I somehow missed until now. 

It’s EO 13848: 

The more people are aware of it, the less likely it will be that Trump can use it to pull off a sneak attack on our liberties before leaving office.

You will observe, of course, what an advantage is conveyed by possessing that vaunted 115 IQ with an advanced degree….

The nurse is dead, allegedly

 Anonymous Conservative provides evidence that that poor nurse who fainted on camera after receiving the Covid “vaccine” actually died from a reaction to it.

Remember that nurse who they trotted out in front of the cameras after she got the vaccine, she got light headed, keeled over right on camera, and then the camera cut out as doctors crammed around her lifeless body? Official local news media reported social media posts turned up which seemed to indicate she had died, but the family didn’t want anybody talking about it because they were threatened. 4Chan began to look into it, and based off death records, they think her body was shipped back to her hometown to be quietly put on the death records there. /pol has noted, her friends and family plus nurses are ignoring all the Instagram comments asking if she’s okay, she usually posts every 2-3 days and it’s been like a week since she posted on Instagram, there was a post up on the hospital page for FB saying she was feeling better and now they took it down, someone made a new channel to pretend she’s alive while leaving her old channel alone, and a friend posted a picture of the two of them together, but /pol noticed the picture was part of a set from a while back, and not recent.

First, /pol/ is always right. Second, the death notice is real, based on the county records.

Tiffany Pontes Dover

Age: 30

Location: Higdon, AL

Death Report: Done

Data Source: De Kalb County Death Records 

Third, I have personally witnessed a vaccine reaction that caused a child to immediately slump unconscious and heard the administering doctor say “oh, shit!” in obvious alarm. You will never, ever, convince me that vaccines are entirely safe; they are not and they will never be. FFS, even peanuts and eggs and penicillin are not entirely safe for everyone, so anyone who claims that vaccines are is lying.

Only an idiot or someone over the age of 70 will even consider taking one of these vaccines.

Note that this wouldn’t be the first time that people were literally dropping dead after being injected with a vaccine:

I heard that seven men dropped dead in a doctor’s office after being vaccinated. This was in an army camp, so I wrote to the Government for verification. They sent me the report of U.S. Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson. The report not only verified the report of the seven who dropped dead from the vaccines, but it stated that there had been 63 deaths and 28,585 cases of hepatitis as a direct result of the yellow fever vaccine during only 6 months of the war.